Welcome to The Axis your late look at payments news from around the world Coverage includes the CoralPay Technology Limited GameTech rollout of a mobile payment and unstructured supplementary service data USSD system in an effort to serve Nigerian customers In addition GameTech company LeoVegas is rolling out Swish in the Swedish market Vietnam is looking to have household payments made through cashless transactions and Paytomat is adding support for the bitcoin diamond BCD digital currency through its platform that is reportedly popular in Europe GameTech company LeoVegas is bringing the Swish payment system to its platform for the Swedish market the company said in an announcement The company noted that the platform would help bolster its offering and could lower its transaction costs In addition it said customers will be securely identified through BankID LeoVegas Group CEO Gustaf Hagman said in the announcement The fact that 63 of all Swedes use Swish every week shows how popular Swish is and it is therefore extra exciting that LeoVegas is now offering the favourite way of making payments in Sweden Our teams have worked intensively to be able to launch immediately after the turn of the year And Paytomat which says it has an expanding user base in Europe is making bitcoin diamond BCD a supported currency on its platform according to an announcement That is the payments firm is bringing the digital currency to its point-of-sale POS system settlement system and wallet With the rollout the company said that brick-and-mortar businesses or eCommerce merchants can take the BCD cryptocurrency And with the addition of BCD to the companys wallet the company said that customers can now hold BCD and other crypto assets all in one place and make instant payments at their selected stores while receiving current fiat value updates for each crypto In Vietnam the government is looking to spur the use of cashless transactions for payments of household bills Vnexpress reported The outlet reported that a resolution from the government about bolstering the productivity of workers and competitiveness contains a push to accelerate the use of cashless transactions It also noted that municipal and provincial officials have been asked to tell schools hospitals and utilities to take in fees and bills through cashless transactions And Payments transaction firm CoralPay Technology Limited rolled out a mobile payment and unstructured supplementary service data USSD system in an effort to serve Nigerian customers according to reports Through the service customers can make payments for services and goods through wallets and bank accounts via USSD short codes with the help of mobile apps Automated teller machines or POS systems in turn accept the transactions and customers can receive receipts via email or paper LATEST INSIGHTS Our data and analytics team has developed a number of creative methodologies and frameworks that measure and benchmark the innovation thats reshaping the payments and commerce ecosystem Check out the latest PYMNTS report on how QSRs are doing when it comes to innovation